128 Koornang Road
Carnegie VIC 3163
Out to the burbs, following the lead of our fearless MCR leader, I clicked on the Sat Nav and made my way out to Carnegie, where apparently the coffee is pretty good. (See comments of my “Guinness Book of Records Post.” On MCR)
A fashionable and stylish little café, was nestled away within a busy shopping strip, which was murder trying to find parking, nevertheless we persisted and were greeted by friendly and warm owners, Sam and Helen.
Who really did go out of their way to make sure all their customers were being attended too.
The menu was decent, with the trademark homemade figjam available in a variety of dishes, and worth a try too, for it was absolutely delicious, as was the coffee, apparently.
My espresso came out perfect, well extracted, not too long, a dense nutmeg crema with aroma permeating the air and wafting into my expectant nostrils.
The flavours rich and complex, a sublime experience. To re-enforce the recommendation I asked the talented barista to make me a double shot latte, out of his amazing looking La Mazzorca espresso machine, and once again he was firing with all cylinders with a perfect temperature, well textured, velvety experience that was quite Orgasmic…coincidently that was also the AMANTI blend that they were using!!!
Excellent recommendation!! Thank You, worth the trip, and apart from the amazing coffee, which by the way you were right, AMANTI is quite AWESOME, they do a killer fresh juice, try the apple with a dash of ginger, it is to die for!!!
Has got to be a 3 beaner guys, sex was never as orgasmic as this!!
Coffee: AMANTI
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Your next challenge, if you choose to accept, is to have a taste at the Bean Barn, Sturt St., Ballarat. A blessing for those of us regional folk. Richard roasts his beans and keeps us teased with his weekly special. For his fourth birthday in a few weeks, he will have his Yemeni coffee available.
Richard does roast his own coffee, however the standards have dropped while the prices have gone up. Coffees tend to be made inconsistantly and the lack of sugar acceptance a little irritating after a while.
I’d suggest MCR go back to Figjam and see how they are going.
My favorite cafe, but only on Sundays. Thats when the barista who knows how to extract that extra magic from Amanti beans works. He usually wears white hoops in his ears. PS: I only ever drink latte.
Recently, they have hired another, taller, barista to work on Sundays but he is not as good. But atleast he is better than others who don’t make it any better than I do using my cheap manual espresso machine at home (I am getting better).
$3 for a regular and $3.5 for a large latte seems reasonable, dont know what other guys are talking about it being expensive.